An Seungnam Guri Market. Photo guri city
Guri Mayor Ahn Seung-nam refuted the suspicion of his son’s preferential treatment in military service, saying, “I made a scratch that lacks confirmation of the facts.”
Mayor Ahn refutes “Dazzle with strange content”
Mayor Ahn released the SBS reporter’s questionnaire and answers on the official blog on the 28th. This is to respond to the suspicion of preferential military service for his second son, who is working as a full-time reserve, raised by SBS the day before.
According to SBS, Mayor Ahn’s son is serving in the military at Guri City Hall, where his father is the mayor. Since full-time reserve workers commute from home, the place of service is decided in consideration of the location of residence and transportation, and SBS reported that it is suspected of preferential treatment for being assigned to Guri City Hall even though there is a work place closer to the city hall near the house of Mayor Ahn’s son. In addition, it was revealed that the regional commander of the reserve army, whose budget is determined by Guri City Hall, leaves the son of Mayor Ahn, a junior soldier, from his car.
Accordingly, Mayor Ahn said, “The deployment of full-time reserve service units is a matter of the Military Manpower Administration’s jurisdiction.” “There was no direct or indirect influence in the process, and there is no doubt that the influence of the Guri mayor on the Military Manpower Administration.” However, the Military Manpower Administration explained that “the assignment of full-time reserve service is a matter under the jurisdiction of the military and is not under the jurisdiction of the Military Manpower Administration.”
Mayor Ahn also said, “I didn’t recognize his son’s work as it wasn’t a business area of the Guri market.”
Mayor Ahn argued that these suspicions were the abuse of those involved in the Guri World Design City project that he ended. He said, “The reason why I can’t ask for my son to be sent to another place even now is because most of them don’t want to work at the Guri City Hall battalion,” he said. “Full-time reserve workers working in Guri say that working at the office is much more comfortable.”
He predicted that “if you receive specific data from someone and report it with intention, it will get caught,” he predicted, “and even follow-up articles will dazzle viewers with strange contents that are difficult to confirm in secret.” He added, “If an article comes out, the police will investigate, but I will handle it.”
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